How much water did we use in 66 days? Find out in this episode of Sailing A B Sea. We also start making our way back to Kas and explore some different anchorages along the way.

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Now we carry 600 litres of fresh water on board  and in that whole time period we only used ...

I'm Barry, I'm Aannsha, this is the  continuing journey of Sailing A B Sea 

We're finally making our way back to Kas. Yeah we  got as far north as we could given that we were  

fighting into the wind most of the way um next  year might be different. So we're just going to  

call the marineros and get them to help us out. I mean we probably don't need help, there's not much  

wind um it's quite a big fairway and we could  probably get out on our own but the thing is  

if you've got the marinaros available to  you as a service then use the service

Setur marina, Setur marina this is Sailing Yacht A B Sea, A B Sea over.

A B Sea, Setur marina, go ahead. Gunayden, we are at pontoon

Y1 and we request marinero  assistance to depart the marina, over.

A B Sea marineros on their way

Thank you very much this is  A B Sea standing by on 7-3

Captain wait, wait. Uh-oh Just one moment Captian, wait.

Slow slow slow

Be careful of the other side

Okay, tamam. Okay

Okay. Tamam. Tesekkurlur

Even when it looks easy that's  why you need marineros.

All right so the plan is uh we're either gonna  go three hours to an anchorage or we're gonna  

go seven hours to anchor at Didim. Yeah.  What happened to the wind from the north west Baz? 

You know it's it's August, it's it's Meltemi time and Windy forecast it. They did yes

and obviously not! Nope

Those fickle wind gods that's what they are.  Someone needs to have a word with them. So  

Not really any wind to speak of. There's no  wind that's... if we're doing 6.3  

and we've got 6.8 wind, we're creating that wind. Yeah,  yeah our movement is keeping those flags flying

All right so position update. This is um Samos  we're going through that little channel there  

That's Turkey over there, hopefully around that  corner is where we're going to anchor for tonight

We're going over there and we are missing  the Greek-Turkish border as best as we can  

obviously and then we'll go through here  and just around the corner around here  

is the anchorage that we're actually  looking at stopping at if it's empty.

Oh he's a whopper!

Wow! beautiful, gosh they're huge. Yeah going  somewhere else, obviously don't want to play  

today. Update captain. Update you can obviously see  evidence of wind ahead of us and uh it looks like  

the wind is coming out of the north now so when we  get around this corner if that wind is going to be  

helpful to us we might not anchor in the anchorage,  we might continue on for another four hours

to Didim.

When the wind is right, why not take advantage of  it? So once we stick on those around that corner  

we'll find out what we're going to do yeah. So  the plan has now changed again, we are going  

to continue on to Didim, we've got 20 knots of wind  which is just uh coming up our starboard quarter  

and when we've got this wind going the right  way we're going to take advantage of it. Oh  

it's dropped a little bit and our SOGs dropped  a little bit but you know still respectibule

isn't it? Yeah I'm happy with that speed. Yeah  so that's pretty good 16.5 knots of wind and 6.1  

knots of speed over ground. Here's an interesting  but totally useless factoid, um we um we left  

Kas on the 24th of May and we arrived at  Kusadasi on the 28th of July. Now we carry 600  

litres of fresh water on board and in that whole  time period we only used 420 litres of fresh water

Baz keeps saying that to people, he goes  oh you know we didn't use that much water  

and I could just see people looking at us  going "ew" and I'm like no seriously I kept  

myself clean, I didn't need a lot of water to do  that!

By the time we arrived at the bay next to

Didim marina the wind was a steady 30 knots but  fortunately for us it was coming straight out  

of the northwest which made anchoring in this  bay fairly straightforward. All right drop it

Ten

Let out another five and then snub it

Well. Well. A bit of deja vu. We  are back in Didim. Bay number one  

Um yeah so just a quick overnight here really  uh and then a big jump again tomorrow. I think  

we're going to try and get to Bodrum tomorrow? Yeah.  Yeah really uh kind of a weird day for wind  

we had the wind behind us most of the time  

and then it would just drop away to  nothing and then it would come back up. And the sail would be like that.

and just as we're coming into anchor here it thought it would be a good idea to blow 30 knots  

Yeah thanks wind gods you're great. But anyway the  anchor's in, it's set, we're good. Yes yeah, I mean  

that's one thing about all of these bays actually in Didim, you know that once you get your anchor in  

because it's sand it's really good holding. Yeah.  Um yeah. Yeah so uh I'm feeling quite tired after  

today don't know why. I'm not surprised. So  an early night tonight and then an early start  

tomorrow. Because it's a long trip tomorrow. Yeah it  is yeah. All right so set your arm clocks. Yes

Right, I'll bring up the snubber. Yes

A 6.45 a.m start this morning, we are headed to  Bodrum and we're estimating that trip should  

take us about five hours. We're not sure exactly  where we're going to anchor, there's a couple of  

different anchorages I'd like to scope out so we  will be anchoring somewhere near Bodrum. One of  

the places that we look at when we're deciding  which is a good bay to anchor in is the Turkish  

Waters and Cyprus Pilot and um yeah it's really  good because it gives photographs and lots of  

uh his information that he's gleaned over years  so if it's something that you're interested in  

looking at there's a link in the video description  below okay.

We've got 13 knots of wind now

and we still got the motor on um  but we do have the head sail out  

It's probably giving us maybe an extra half a  knot. Yeah. So I'll take anything I can get to shorten  

the journey. We've been on the go for two hours now  and we can still see Didim on the horizon, a flat  

piece of land behind us and we're just coming  into the entrance into the big bay of Yalikovak

We're going over there into this bay which has  about two or three names. The one in the Turkish Waters  

Pilot Guide is Bitez, the other  name is on the screen right now

This looks very nice doesn't  it? What's this place called?  

Bittek or a Agajli, Agajli Koyu. Okay I think I'll stick with Bittek  

Yeah okay so this is um kind of um a busy bay but  it still seems to be plenty of room for everyone  

to sort of like squeeze in. It's obviously a  touristy sort of resort because we can see  

along the shoreline lots of restaurants and bars,  there's a lot of water sport activities here as  

well. We're actually in 10 metres of water with 40  metres out so a scope of four to one. Yeah it's sand  

Yeah and it bit in yeah straight away. Once it  went in it was like yeah. There's a wastewater boat  

that's just leaving the um bay so they do come  around and help you pump out if you don't want to  

go into the marina yeah yeah it's cool. That's  good yeah. Yeah so we'll see what we'll see what  

it's like and and how noisy it gets at nighttime  when they start playing music. Well allegedly  

Allegedly. Allegedly. According to the Turkish  uh Pilot Guides. Yeah yeah. All right well  

it's time for work. Yeah. All work and no play  makes something happen. Baz a dull boy. Yeah. Yeah lol